June 28, 2012
Brace Yourselves
Good morning! I'm working from home today. It's a bit quieter as the girls had a sleepover at friends' house. It looks like summer heat will be working its way back into New England starting today.
Just returned from Golds. Took the advanced Step and abs class. Michelle stayed back with the boys so that she could work more on the new photos in the hallways. Just starting to get the news about the Supreme Court ruling.
Via Fector: “If the slave states had only called slavery a ‘tax’ we could have avoided a costly civil war.”
2009: Obama insisted it is not a tax. 2012: The Supreme Court says it is a tax. And the Obama administration's legal team defended it as such to the judges. It took us a Constitutional Amendment to get the federal income tax, but now suddenly we can pass a large 'tax' like this on folks who don't buy health care. Okay, I won't say anymore. Too annoyed at the word games. Whether this stood or not, I was more concerned with the administration's restrictions on religious liberty.
Took Michelle and the boys for a quick lunch downtown at Cafe on the Oval. Stopped by DFE afterward to buy her a frozen coffee drink.
Via Qualcomm: “The day before an idea is a breakthrough, it’s a crazy idea.” – Peter Diamandis. CDMA — Qualcomm's biggest innovation — was considered by some experts to break the laws of physics until we demonstrated it.
In other non-health care news my favorite Catholic communicator of the 20 century, Bishop Fulton Sheen, was declared "Venerable".
Michelle brought Claire and Abby back home from their sleepover but is now on her way to her followup oncologist appointment.
Going to finally wrap it up for tonight. Need to console Michelle a bit more as they've modified her regimen to make it a bit stronger: two weeks on, one week off. They started conservatively with one on, one off, but since she tolerated it with no side effects, they want to tweak the schedule.
After having such a difficult time with that last week of the clinical trial, I can understand Michelle's frustration. On her current protocol there was no observable symptom at all: no touch of rash, nausea, diarrhea, fatigue... nothing. They expect something, even just a bit. In Michelle's words, "it's like they want me to suffer something!"
But we got the boys tucked in bed with their prayers. I'm taking tomorrow off since it's adjacent to my birthday. I want to relax a bit with the family and enjoy it. Since I'm not going to buy an expensive sport car, motorcycle, or boat for my mid-life crisis, I'm open to suggestions. «grin»
“Not everyone who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,'
will enter the Kingdom of heaven,
but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.” — Matthew 7